Teaching Resources

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A Level

• Music Technology (essay question)
  • The Physics of Sound
  • The History of Sound Recording
  • Digital Technology
  • Synthesizers
  • Drum Machines
  • MIDI & Sequencing
  • Sampling
  • Effects Processing
  • Electric Guitars
• History of Music [slides]
  • Timeline Summary Sheets
    • Middle Ages
    • Renaissance
    • Baroque
    • Classical
• Scales, Chords, Etc. - Summary sheets
  • Scales
  • Augmented 6th
  • Neapolitan 6th
  • Diminished 7th
• Analytical listening (OCR aural 2009/10)
  • Word Setting [1] [2]
  • Tonality [1] [2]
  • Accompaniment [1]
  • Interpretation [1]
  • Repertoire sheets: [RVW - On Wenlock Edge] [Berg - Wozzeck]
• Purcell: Dido & Aeneas (OCR set work 2009/10)
  • Background [1] [2] [3]
  • Scoring, performance concerns, tonal schemes
  • Use of key
  • Summary points: [Act I.i] [Act I.ii] [Act II]
  • Related repertoire
    • Handel: Acis & Galatea - [Introduction] [Worksheet I]
    • Blow: Venus & Adonis - [Introduction] [Worksheet I] [Worksheet II]
    • The Beggar's Opera - [Introduction]
  • Revision Guide
• Secular Vocal Music (EdExcel minor topic 2008/9)
  • NAM35
    • Lesson Slides
    • Historical Background
      • The birth of the madrigal
      • The Florentine Camerata, the inception of Monody and the birth of Opera
    • Summary points
    • Questions
  • NAM34
    • Summary points
    • Questions
  • NAM41
    • Summary points
    • Questions
  • Assorted revision questions

GCSE (EdExcel 2008-10)

• AoS 1
  • Ground Bass
  • Rondo Form
• AoS 2
  • Minimalism
  • Expressionism: [1] [2]
  • Experimental & Electronic Music
• AoS 3
  • Britpop: Introduction
  • Dance Music
  • Songs from the Musicals
• AoS 4
  • African Music: [1] [2]
  • Indian Music
  • Fusions

Fourth Form

• Improvisation
  • Worksheet
• Film Music
  • Introduction
• African Drumming
  • Lesson Slides
  • Class Worksheets 1 2 3 4 (to accompany this and this)
  • Useful links (in addition to those contained within the lesson slides above):
    • Mbira
    • Kora
    • Balaphon
    • Trumpet mutes
    • Steve Reich: Drumming
  • Class work: A B C D E F G
• Sounds of the Orchestra
  • Lesson 1
    • What is sound?
    • Scientific categories of sound production
    • Instrument families game
    • The symphony orchestra - [video]
  • Lesson 2
    Strings
    • Violin - [video]   [diagram]
      • Pizzicato - [video]
      • Unorthodox playing techniques! - [video]
    • Viola (inc. double stopping) - [video]
    • (Violon)cello (inc. tremolo) - [video]
    • Double Bass - [video]
    • Go see the harpsichord (or [video])
  • Lesson 3
    Woodwind
    • Flute - [video]
    • What is a reed?
    • Oboe & Bassoon - [video]
    • Contrabassoon - [video]
    • Cor anglais - [video]
    • Clarinet (+ accordian!) - [video]
    • Saxophone - [video]
    • Go see the organ
  • Lesson 4
    Brass
    • Brass quintet (inc. use of mutes) - [video]
    • Sousaphone - [video]
    Percussion
    • Introuduction, Timpani, Xylophone - [video]
    • Glockenspiel - [video]
    • Marimba - [video]
    • Vibraphone [video]
      Trip to the Hall
      Worksheet on Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
      ([video 1] [video 2])
• History of Popular Music
  • The Blues 1 2
  • 1950s and 1960s 1
  • 1970s and 1980s 1
  • 1990 - present 1

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